Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Shown Less Effective Against Variants
A study suggests Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine may be less effective against the emerging variants of the ...
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Settlement Expected Soon in US Opioid Lawsuits
Lawyers involved with a potential multibillion-dollar settlement linked to the opioid crisis in the United States say a deal ...
Billionaire Bezos Makes Successful Suborbital Trip
Space company Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos rocketed to space Tuesday, with the world’s oldest and youngest people ...
Monster Wildfire Tests Years of Forest Management Efforts
Ecologists in a vast region of wetlands and forest in remote Oregon have spent the past decade thinning young trees and using ...
Delta Variant Accounts for 83% of New US COVID Cases
The delta variant of the coronavirus now accounts for 83% of new cases in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control ...
Billionaire Bezos Back on Earth After Successful Suborbital Trip
Billionaire Jeff Bezos was back on earth safely Tuesday after a 10-minute suborbital flight aboard Blue Origin’s New ...
US Urges Citizens to Refrain from Traveling to Britain
The U.S. State Department is urging Americans not to travel to Britain because of the rising levels of new COVID-19 cases in the ...
Billionaire Bezos Ready to Realize Dream of Traveling to Space
American businessman Jeff Bezos is set to become the second billionaire to self-fund a trip to space this month when he blasts ...
Deadly Australia Spider Venom Could Save Heart Attack Victims
Venom from an Australian spider that is one of the world’s deadliest could save the lives of heart attack victims.A potentially ...
Indonesian Doctors Dying of COVID-19 Amid Surge
COVID-19 is taking a devastating toll on medical professionals in Indonesia, where 114 doctors have died so far this month, more ...
Biden Administration Struggles to Boost Vaccination Rates as COVID-19 Surges
With COVID-19 cases rising in the United States, some cities and counties are telling residents to wear masks indoors, even if ...
An Idea to Chew on Amid Sea Urchin Overgrowth in Australia
Once part of a balanced ecosystem, the number of native sea urchins in Australia is multiplying. Scientists have offered a ...
US Surgeon General: ‘Pandemic Isn’t Over’
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said Sunday he is worried about the increasing number of new coronavirus cases in the ...
Britain’s Prime Minister, Finance Minister Exposed to COVID-19
Britain’s National Health Service has contacted Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his finance minister, Rishi Sunak, to let them ...
First Athletes Positive for COVID-19 in Tokyo Olympic Village
Two athletes have become the first to test positive for the coronavirus in the Tokyo Olympic Village, officials said on Sunday, ...
South African Authorities Probe Coastal Chemical Spill in Durban
South African authorities in the port city of Durban said Saturday they were investigating a coastal chemical spill that may have ...
US Experiencing ‘A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’
The U.S. is experiencing a rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths. The highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus among ...
Teen Chosen to Fly Into Space With Bezos
Oliver Daemen, 18, received exciting news Thursday from the Blue Origin flight team: He will be flying into space on July ...
Extreme Weather Becoming the Norm, Not the Exception
The World Meteorological Organization is calling for action to halt climate change as extreme weather becomes the norm rather ...
Hubble Space Telescope Fixed After Month of no Science
The Hubble Space Telescope should be back in action soon, following a tricky, remote repair job by NASA. The orbiting ...
Vietnam Shops for Vaccines in Hopes of Avoiding More Lockdowns
Vietnam’s government is on a global vaccine shopping spree in hopes it can stem a surge of COVID-19 infections without ...
COVID Vaccination Rate ‘Must Increase Rapidly’, WHO, Red Cross Warn
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has warned in a statement that the global COVID vaccination ...
Pacific Rim Leaders to Discuss Economic Way Out of Pandemic
U.S. President Joe Biden, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Russian President ...
Device Taps Brain Waves to Help Paralyzed Man Communicate
In a medical first, researchers harnessed the brain waves of a paralyzed man unable to speak — and turned what he intended to ...